Iāve been a member of both the Socialist Rifle Association and the Liberal Gun Club, if anyone is looking for leads.
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Iāve been a member of both the Socialist Rifle Association and the Liberal Gun Club, if anyone is looking for leads.
Yeah, I meant more as purchasers of firearms than members. They just donāt want to lose their corporate overlords a new source of first time buyers. (My dad has NRA stickers on the car, but no firearms, while I own several firearms and more gunsmithing tools, but wouldnāt give a cent to the NRA.)
I imagine that trans folks are one of their fastest growing markets at this point.
Well, they are the westest coast (or is that Alaska?)
I recently found out that one of my high school classmates became president of Rice University. I just remembered that he dressed very well, and that other people made fun of him for being Haitian, back when that was associated with a new disease affecting gay people.
Technically, they impeached Clinton because he lied about a blowjob. Then they started worshipping the guy that lied more than 30,000 times while in office.
This guy? Who woulda thunk it? shameproject.com/report/malco...
Same here, I last read Earthsea in high school - where it was easily my favorite assigned reading.
Same for me, without the hitting. But choke and donāt get choked is just as good.
pretty sure that someone told him that only 20% of the energy hitting a solar panel comes out as electricity
They hear some facts, which go through their worm-infested brains and comes out their mouth as barely intelligible scrambled bullshit.
It took me a minute to process, but I think he's referring to the current efficiency of solar panels. You get about 20% of the solar energy hitting a panel as electricity. But, as the note says - that is way more than enough.
Make sure you get an edge piece.
Satanic atheism, hopefully.
I was going to say something, but then I realized, I always prefer downtown to the strip.
Is that the opposite of big-boned?
I am approaching retirement asymptotically.
(I saw this at the store and was like "most confusing instructions ever".)
wow (I am not very good at compliments)
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dogās head, iām not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, youāve got the heaviest soul weāve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? theyāve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I had grades every year since first grade, though I think number grades started in 3rd grade. Before that, it was like "needs improvement", or "outstanding", and the 'subjects' were like: "plays well with others".
And no one would use the phrase "continental United States" for at least another 93 years.
There were only 37 states in 1866.
Well said.
AI stethoscope can detect heart conditions, whether they exist or not, UK doctors find
I feel like acting rationally is like acting courageously - there are lots of strong feelings involved, but you donāt let them control your decisions/behavior. Bravery without fear is stupidity. Rationality without emotions is self deception.
First, the Buddhas at Bamiyan, now thisā¦
There are barely any left leaning democrats. I visit European countries and I can see large billboards for the communist party. Here, just proposing cuts to the police budget is anathema.
We could all use the laugh, thatās for sure.
Iām as old as ābutt naked,ā āsingle malt,ā and āurban legendā.
Now I can start looking for an alternative to #duolingo that doesnāt use AI enshittification, and treats its workers well.
It was the Thong Song
My girlfriend a long time ago did some pastry work at Le Cirque in NYC, when it was one of the cityās top restaurants, and I went with her one day to deliver some stuff. I saw rodents there, too.
Such a small world. Hope that MF croaks soon so we can start making it nice again.
They used to sit me on the counter there and feed me mozzarella and salami to keep me quiet. More than 50 years ago.
Also, JHS 190 was where I first touched a computer.
Just across the boulevard, wow. I took my son back to the old neighborhood this year, so he could try real bagels and visit the Lemon Ice King. Very different from California.
Wait - which school? I went to PS139 and Russell Sage JHS.
Every single person who invaded the Capitol should have been shot until they ran out of bullets. Then the bodies should have been dumped out at sea, like Bin Laden, to mitigate the chance of any memorial sites. Then, two weeks later, they should've shipped the instigator off to a black site forever.
The purpose of a system etc. etc.
If you like paneer paratha And gettin' out of the gi If you're not into yoga If you have ADHD š¶
Have a great birthday!
I forget the source, but: Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes to mean "treating someone like an authority" For some, "if you don't respect me, I won't respect you" means "if you don't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person"
I coulda used this song about 35 years ago.
Lord, I see what you've done for others and I am ready to receive.
Childhood: Ford/Carter, bicentennial, Schoolhouse Rock, Sesame Street. Teens: Reagan/Bush, Just Say No, AIDS, recession 20s: Clinton, Whitewater, Waco, Monica, dotcom bubble 30s: Bush, 9/11, endless war, financial crisis 40s: Obama, tan suits, healthcare, Dijon mustard 50s: Hell-world
āThe only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, Iād beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.ā - Jack Kirby Happy birthday King
I still havenāt been able to bring myself to watch this given all that is going on around me.
Still, itās a lot easier collecting 250 guns than it is collecting 250 cars and motorcycles, unless youāre Jay Leno. And I know there are people out there with collections of even weirder and more useless stuff.
I think it gets a little more complicated than that. I have a 1911 that I love to shoot, but itās not exactly a great CCW, even if my county didnāt ban them. I also have a good bolt action rifle for long distance shooting, and an AR with two uppers, .223 and .458, for very different use cases, too.
Flagged for what? Extreme cuteness? (To be read with an accent matching āsucculent Chinese mealā)
Tell them if they bring that shit into the school, they ought to start saving for their legal defense now, and that you just ended their chance of using any kind of āI was unawareā defense.
When this is all said and done, I hope to see a lot of Republicans hanging from gallows, and a lot of Democrats serving a few years in prison.
When this is all said and done, Rolling Stone should be honored as heroes.
Mine is Frittata De Blanc
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
Did you try "BALLTART"?
She was right all alongā¦ try and imagine how peaceful and pleasant it would be living in the USA if she was president
In Portuguese, you will hear "estadunidense" as well as "americano," and the former maps pretty well to USian, though all the translator apps use "American" for both.
I received a different one, from a different group. I put it directly in the trash, or Iād share it.
When I was a little kid visiting Grandpa in Florida, my step-grandma gave me this exact thing, same box and everything. It was many years before that shape meant anything else to me.
If you have a single shred of humanity and compassion, you are praying this is a deadly disease that is painfully killing Trump.
I mute most of them via a list. Got another list of my own for the whiny centrists.
Not saying anyone should do this but, you know, if you have the means...
Me, too
Glad I could help. (Though I was giving you money I took from unluckier poker players than me. I am a wealth redistributor.)
That is very obviously a dune cottage, not a sea cottage. (j/k - beautiful as usual)
Geez, the marketing people at forbidden rice really know how to get me to buy something. (Had to google that just to see what was forbidden.)
I'm starting to get a whiff of the early dot-com smell. Heard a manager say today that we should avoid meta-programming because it is harder for the AI to reason about. So I sold a bit of stock.
You two are one of the few things that bring me smiles on a regular basis. Happy for you!
Remembering Joe Strummer today on what would have been his 73rd birthday (born August 21, 1952) album.ink/JStrummerHBD
I forgot to pick mine up when I was in the city to see the doctor the other day, but I just got an email from Green Apple saying they were shipping it to me, so that was very nice.
Think Iāll answer one of these per day for a while. With one person? 8 With different people? 5
Iām glad there is a new generation carrying on my traditions.
I finally understand what Marie Kondo meant by āspark[ing] joy.ā Every time I step on the gas in this thing, the sound sparks joy. As someone who has had a difficult time smiling for the past few years, this is amazing.
Gonna have to get a photo and ask the stupid AI which will probably make up something believable.
Ok, then. Probably not the same lizard. :(
Thank you!
Where is this? I've got very similar little guys in my yard, and I've always wondered what they are. (I live near Mt. Diablo in California.)
The old white guy is inside the yellow barrel now.
Same. Sometimes you need to do unpleasant things in the near term to ensure survival in the long term. Fighting fire with fire is just the beginning.
Gavin Newsom might be the hero this nation deserves, but Mamdani is the hero we need.
That looks and sounds amazing. I love everything in it. Recipe link? š
I so badly want there to be a town nearby called āTitmannshausenā.
This woman is a demon and deserves every bit of criticism she gets. She has turned her vast wealth against one of the most vulnerable communities on the planet and Bsky is silencing their extremely valid anger.
Damn, I had been thinking about one of these, too. (But what I really need is just a massage table where I can breathe face down, and hang my arms over the sides. Of course, I'd probably fall off it while sleeping and break something.)
Same. And then I want them to appoint a person from an underrepresented group to head every single executive agency, and to tax every single church that so much as mentioned a political party or candidate.
Youāre getting close. The people that buy these tools love the marketing, and never have to use the tools themselves.
So satisfying!
I know, just thought it was an interesting parallel. In my own experience with doctors, every time they said āuncomfortableā it was painful, and every time they said āpainfulā I wound up screaming. And the one time they apologized in advance was the 2nd most painful experience Iāve ever had.
That is one antichrist-looking young man. There better be a plan somewhere to deal with him.
"Uncomfortable" has been used as a synonym for "painful" in all my jiu jitsu classes for over a decade - BUT, we all know it is being said ironically, and what it really means for the poor student getting submitted.
